I cant bear the smell of poo any longer.

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DS (7) I dont think has ever pood on the toilet, I have decided since last week, I am no longer goint to try and rescue his pants, its costing a fortune to keep washing one item, it makes the machine smell too, so now they go straight in the bin, so thats a minimum of 1 pair of pants a day lost, arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I love him rearly, he cant help it bless him.

IKWYM - it got to a point where a certain brand of babywipes and fabric detergent smelt like poo!

Incidentally I think woolies are usually good for cheap pants.

Thats it, I have to change wipes and detergent often, Matalan pants are cheap too, the cheaper the better as they are pretty much used as disposables.

I'm confused, why do you need to wash them individually? Get a nappy bucket and drypail until you've got enough laundry for a hot wash. Wipes can also go in the bucket and get washed, bin them when they're clean.

Sorry, didn't mean to sound unsympathetic, I can actually see myself where you are in a few years! Just 7prs pants in the bin a week seems a bit extreme.

I suppose I could try that, would just need somewhere to put the bucket, plus his poos are rarely solid so its quite messy business as much off the pants as I can.

Sounds just like my DS, don't know how he's supposed to get toilet trained if his poo is so gooey he doesn't even notice it. My bucket's next to the loo so I can dip stuff for a halfhearted rinse before it goes in the bucket. The lid keeps the smell in but a drop of teatree oil helps too.
Try doing the wash at 60 but if it's not enough, try the pre-wash cycle. Plus, an annual descaler treatment makes a difference to how efficient your machine is.

Thanks, I use a few drops of tea tree in the machine, it does seem to help, especially with his wet stuff, he has up to 8 bladder accidents a day too.

Could you turn them inside out and hold them in the loo while it flushes, to get the worst off? (obv have to be careful not to let go!) And then put them in a bucket of napisan or disinfectant or whatever before washing.

I can remember doing that with trainer pants (not SN here, sorry, but agree that chucking pants away every day is a bit extreme even when they're cheap).

If you're going for disposeable pants then how about pull ups or netti knickers with a pad in?

I can sympathise we had years of 'it'(rubber glove slucing in the loo then the bucket) too! I stuck 1/2 disposable (st) liner pads on ds undies when out and about for a while - sometimes helped when cleaning up 'small' accidents. ( Must be well stuck down !) I still buy cheap undies and sacrifice if needs must.((touching wood but I think ds may just about have 'got' getting to the loo on time!!))